by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Interest in cybersex is soaring as the pandemic has left people subject to lockdowns and travel bans and unable to seek intimacy in the usual ways, according to experience designer Angelina Aleksandrovich. At the same time, the pandemic has also pushed people's...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Technology
SAN RAMON: Google's next internet-connected home device will test whether consumers trust the company enough to let it snoop on their sleep. New sleep-sensing technology will be a key feature on Google's latest version of its Nest Hub, a 7-inch smart screen...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management
Frances Schwartzkopff Climate change could lift interest payments on sovereign and corporate debt by nearly $270 billion a year by the end of the century, according to Cambridge University and the University of East Anglia. The authors of the study used artificial...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management
Frances Schwartzkopff A failure to cut pollution will cost governments around the world billions, according to University of Cambridge economists who used artificial intelligence to forecast climate change’s effect on sovereign credit ratings. If emissions...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India reported 35,871 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest in more than three months, with the worst-affected state of Maharashtra alone accounting for 65% of that. As many as 17,741 recoveries were reported in India in the last 24 hours,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
New Delhi: Automobile majors will have to shell out up to Rs 1 crore as penalty in case of mandatory recall orders by the government for defects in manufacturing from April 1, 2021, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said on Wednesday. The ministry has...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 17, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News
LONDON: Funds investing in “brown” or polluting companies would be hit far harder than environmentally-friendly “green” funds in a climate-related market shock, the European Union’s securities watchdog said on Wednesday in its...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: Around 78.27 lakh (7.8 million) domestic passengers travelled by air in February 2021 which is 36.71 per cent lower than the corresponding period last year, Indian aviation regulator DGCA said on Wednesday. As per the Directorate General of Civil...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Workplace/Employee Benefits
LONDON: Uber is giving its U.K. drivers the minimum wage, pensions and holiday pay, following a recent court ruling that said they should be classified as workers and entitled to such benefits. The ride hailing giant’s announcement Tuesday comes after it lost an...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 17, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The average of COVID-19 vaccine wastage in India is 6.5 per cent, with Telangana and Andhra Pradesh recording 17.6 and 11.6 per cent wastage respectively, the Centre said on Wednesday as it called for optimal utilisation of the jabs. Addressing a...
